TI03 Asimov 1: The Robot Laws

In 1942, a 22-year-old chemistry student and part-time writer set down three short rules for how a fictional robot ought to behave. His aim was to kill off the lazy “robot-as-Frankenstein-monster” cliché. More than eighty years later, real engineers, real ethicists and real lawmakers are still arguing about them. This is the first of two...